Apple Releases OS X 10.8.4 with Safari 6.0.5, iMessage Bug Fix

[tblrsa]

Overall Mountain Lion was a bit of a let down, yes. I bought my Macbook with Snow Leopard which worked fine, but since Lion and ML I experienced more and more Slowdowns, Memory Hogs (Safari!) and Kernel Panics from time to time. I do have some special software running like Truecrypt, Paragon NTFS and VirtualBox, but I don´t think this causes it.

This update though works flawless so far, let´s see if it sticks.

 

[peejack]

For me still not fixed main issues:

No shutdown allowed when certain apps are open.
UI Lag
Weird finder menu glitch on startup (or sometimes not there at all)
Audio glitching
Screen flicking when certain arrangement on external monitor.
Slow shutdown

 

[wilhelmer]

This update is as exciting as everything about Apple in 2013 so far.

 

[moxin]

some attention to OS X, thanks Apple

 

[Jynto]

Bleh, I had my dock customised with unsanity77's mod, and this update broke compatibility. Perhaps a downgrade is in order.

 

[dickie001x]

I just want the Finder to dynamically allocate column width to display full file names. :/ How hard could it be?

Have you tried XtraFinder? It does just that!

 

[nostromo77]

Bleh, I had my dock customised with unsanity77's mod, and this update broke compatibility. Perhaps a downgrade is in order.

YOU HAVE 4TB of SSD?!?!?! Are you from the future? Can I buy a 2TB SSD drive from you on whole sale? ;p

 

[dickie001x]

Just double click the spacer between the name column and the next column. It'll automatically resize to fit (10.8.3 does this).

Have you tried XtraFinder? It does just that!

 

[Rossatron]

well, i can say that the desktop wallpaper bug (where it reverts to the previous setting after shutdown/restart) is fixed.

 

[Woyzeck]

I'd really appreciate if they'd improve Exchange integration so that it works like on iOS.

I can't see my office's calendar on my Mac, while it works perfectly on the iPad. Same for Email.

 

[printz]

When I rebooted after the update, I found the mission control desktop switching very smoothly (I have a Retina MacBook Pro). But I wonder if this is just the fact that I rebooted and freed memory, or is it really an improvement of 10.8.4

 

[devman]

Does this Messages bug fix the problem of old messages just randomly re-appearing? Because that's really annoying and confusing.

Also, I'm not getting my hopes up that the mdworker bug is fixed. But can anyone whose system exhibits that bug report in?

re: mdworker, so far so good. Seems be be fixed. (I assume you mean the constant indexing happening when you use spotlight).

 

[vmachiel]

Google Maps Beta already worked fine for me in Safari 6.0.4. You first have to turn WebGL on, because it's not enabled by default.

The Beta works, and I have WebGL enabled, but I can't use the cool zoom out into space feature. Only with Chrome

 

[Microcuts]

Bloody hell I hope so. Anyone seen an difference in stability?

Yes, I've seen a difference. My mid-2010 had graphics freezes in the past (TS4088 related), but they were fixed by software about 9 months ago. Last night, after updating to 10.8.4, it was back. Safari graphics glitched, then the computer froze... Let's hope it was only once.

 

[Roller]

I'd really appreciate if they'd improve Exchange integration so that it works like on iOS.

I can't see my office's calendar on my Mac, while it works perfectly on the iPad. Same for Email.

My corporate Exchange account has worked fine on all my Macs for a long time. I use Mail.app for email, MS Outlook for calendar.

 

[star-affinity]

For me still not fixed main issues:

No shutdown allowed when certain apps are open.
UI Lag
Weird finder menu glitch on startup (or sometimes not there at all)
Audio glitching
Screen flicking when certain arrangement on external monitor.
Slow shutdown

Your first three points is nothing I've seen, and I've been using 10.8 on several computers since day one.

Audio glitching? Not sure what you mean.

Screen flicker on external monitor? Maybe, haven used that much with 10.8.

Slow shutdown, yes maybe. But only when the computer has been used for a very long time with many applications. Once all apps are closed it doesn't take more than maximum 30 seconds of gray screen and spinning wheel. If I do a shut down or restart directly after starting up that process goes much quicker.

 

[joe-h2o]

For those with third-party SSD's how did the update affect your TRIM enabler's?

When I updated to 10.8.3 I had to re-enable TRIM on the iMac and MBP. At the time I was using Groth's on both and when I updated the MBP Groth's stopped working, wouldn't turn on TRIM. I installed Chameleon's SSD Optimizer and it was able to turn TRIM back on.

Today both the iMac (Groth's) and MBP (Chameleon) kept TRIM enabled after the 10.8.4 update.

As others have said, TRIM was still enabled (according to Trim Enabler) after the update for me on my external TB Lacie Rugged. It was the first thing I checked after the reboot.

 

[spacemanspifff]

Right Click Create Archive!!

Just "upgraded" to 10.8.4 and I've now lost the ability in the finder to create a zip archive! Anyone else see this or is it just me?

I hope its something I need to enable as I use it A LOT!

 

[JohnDoe98]

Just "upgraded" to 10.8.4 and I've now lost the ability in the finder to create a zip archive! Anyone else see this or is it just me?

I hope its something I need to enable as I use it A LOT!

When you right click it should say "Compress n items" where n = the number of items selected. That'll make your zip archive.

 

[eRondeau]

The only issue that interests me in 10.8.4 is whether the shutdown is faster

Why is an instant shut-down so supremely important? I don't get it. Your Mac is doing so many things "behind the scenes" that you don't even know about. Often network tasks. It might be synching with iCloud, or DropBox, or IMAP Mail and it needs time to finish doing those things and close its network connections to shut-down SAFELY. It only takes a minute or two. But if an instantaneous shut-down is vital to you, you can always just pull the plug from the wall and/or pop-out your laptop's battery. That'll do it. Your files will be all messed up, but it'll sure shut down in a split second.

You know back in the Commodore-64 days I had a classmate who was unable to grasp the concept of saving files to a 5-1/4" floppy disk. He would tell it to SAVE and then as soon as the drive started spinning he would shut it off. He didn't understand that SAVING FILES TAKES TIME and you know what, it still does.

 

[Risco]

Have you tried XtraFinder? It does just that!

Trouble is it makes finder freeze a lot, especially with network drives.

 

[spacemanspifff]

When you right click it should say "Compress n items" where n = the number of items selected. That'll make your zip archive.

Sorry my bad - I was trying to do it in the Show in Finder from Spotlight window - although I don't understand why that wouldn't work...

Also can't seem to send files with Messages on the Mac any more.

 

[stp2112]

UI Still Hangs

well I thought the UI freezing I have been having all along was fixed but it did it again just now, had Safari open and dashboard with a few widgets open, went to click on the browser and nothing......had to force restart.........only happens when I am using Safari so I guess its back to FF for now....I have tried everything, reinstalled 10.8.x several times, etc, has happened every since I started using ML........never have a problem when using FF or Chrome.....

 

[Mr.damien]

I don't see any significant bugfixes...kinda dissapointed.

I guess better window management, opengl 4.1, newer libraries, etc would be a wet wish for 10.9. Seems like all Apple cares about is iOS, screw OSX users.

In case you didn't follow last year event, it was the case under Scott Forstall but not anymore now. That's why they fired him: he was making osx lag behind OSX and was not willing to work with osx teams.

Now all iOS and OSX improvements (yes OSX is in advance in a lot of frameworks too like core image or scenekit to name two) will merge.

 

[stp2112]

I mean both performance and bugginess. Mountain Lion has many bugs, such as notification centre rarely working right, 3 finger gestures not always working, etc... While these aren't a big deal, Leopard/Snow Leopard had far fewer bugs. It's because ML has so many features, it does so much, that it's inevitable. Snow Leopard used to do a full reboot in about 30 secs, while ML takes many minutes for me. ML just feels bloated, while SL seems like a slim, basic OS that really works extremely well (a bit like like XP).

I do have an older MBP, late 2008 so yeah maybe that is the source of some of my problems but this thing is a tank and just keeps ticking.....whenever I have reinstalled Snow Leopard it works flawlessly and I dont get the UI hangs like I do with ML, but as long as I dont use Safari ML works fine......